The 1910s

ave such an abundance of stories from this era because of the excellent research presented in the Homicide in Chicago Interactive Database and because news coverage of abortion was abundant during this time.

Women's Stories from the 1910s	Explore More by Time Frame	All Deaths by Name
1910 Elizabeth Lembacker, January 20, 1910 Age: 27 Midwife, Mrs. Hopp, Chicago, IL Celia Schulz, March 28, 1910 Age: 29 Mary Rommell, profession unlisted, Chicago, IL "Phyllis M.," April 9, 1910 Age: 46 Unspecified physician, Chicago, IL Eva Swan April 30, 1910 Age 24 Dr. James Grant, San Francisco, CA "Maeve S.," May 10, 1910 Age: 25 Unspecified midwife, Chicago, IL "Audrey C.," June 3, 1910 Age: 31 Verified self-induced by catheter, Chicago, IL "Charlotte E.," June 12, 1910 Age: 35 Undetermined perpetrator, Chicago, IL Paulina Sproc, June 16, 1910 Age: 35 Dr. W.L. Orainger, Chicago, IL "Clara F.," June 18, 1910 Age: 21 Verified self-induced by catheter, Chicago Louise Heinrich, August 23, 1910 Age: 20 Dr. Andre L. Stapler, New York Ellen Shirah, August 31, 1910 Age: 34 Unspecified physician, Chicago, IL "Leona M.," October 9, 1910 Age: 26 Unspecified physician, Chicago, IL Pelagia Usurowski, October 19, 1910 Age: 32 Rosalie Tomajoski, profession undetermined, Chicago, IL "Lucille H.," November 4, 1910 Age: 41 Unspecified midwife, Chicago, IL Pauline Braasch, November 13, 1910 Age: 32 Dr. Elizabeth Burns, Chicago, IL "Ophilia F.," December 15, 1910 Unspecified midwife, Chicago, IL spacer spacer 1911 Rauka Wilen, January 13, 1911 Age: 27 Midwife Mary Rominel (?), Chicago, IL Lillie Hirst, January 28,1911 Age: 18 Dr. Aldrich (?), Chicago, IL Elizabeth Martin, February 9, 1911 Age: 47 Midwife Mrs. Schutner (?), Chicago, IL Katherine Kammer, March 21, 1911 Age: 33 Unspecified midwife, Chicago, IL Anna Murphy, April 1, 1911 Age: 23 Midwife Carolina Adams (?), Chicago, IL Anna Mueller, June 25, 1911 Age: 20 Dr. George Lotz (?), Chicago, IL Ragna Beck, July 18, 1911 Age: 24 C. M. Anderson (?), profession not specified, Chicago, IL Katherine Collins, July 25, 1911 Age: 23 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL May Bambrick, October 5, 1911 Age: 38 Midwife Emma Schultz, Chicago, IL Ida Kloie, November 15, 1912 Age: 38 Midwife Minnie Neermann (?), Chicago, IL Ella Kettler, December 14, 1911 Age: 34 Dr. Robert H. Foster (?), Chicago, IL Mary Thorning, December 16, 1911 Age: 34 Dr. Paulina Bechtel, Chicago, IL spacer spacer 1912 Lottie Roeder, January 5, 1912 Age: 19 Nurse or midwife Mrs. Theodore Larson (?), Chicago, IL Minnie Miller, January 17, 1912 Age: 38 Dr. Charles W. Klinetop, Chicago, IL Margaret Wagner, January 23, 1912 Age: 33 Midwife Caroline Orbach (?), Chicago, IL Mary Balogh, January 28, 1912 Age: 28 Midwife Anna Klickner (?), Chicago, IL Jeanette Mebzarek, January 30, 1912 Age: 21 Nurse or midwife Anna Chezanowaki (?), Chicago, IL Helen Imhoff February 3, 1912 Age: 37 Dr. W. A. Beringer (?) and midwife Margaret Meyer (?), Chicago, IL Mary Abrams, March 29, 1912 Age: 36 Mary Lunnemeyer (?), profession not specified, Chicago, IL Elizabeth Jorgeson, April 2, 1912 Age: 25 Midwife (?) Katie Sauer (?), Chicago, IL Grace Peters, April 10, 1912 Age: 38 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Ruth Fox April 20, 1912 Age: 19 Pharmacy clerk Frank J. Schwartz (?), Chicago, IL Margaret Dwyer, May 24, 1912 Age: 24 Paulina Lindenson (?), profession not specified, Chicago, IL Mary Goldstein, July 4, 1912 Age: 33 Minnie Bernstein (?), profession not specified, Chicago, IL Anna Rice September 23, 1912 Dr. Maximillian Meinhardt, Chicago, IL Fannie Scheiner, November 15, 1912 Age: 33 Midwife Annie Balnoka (?), Chicago, IL spacer spacer 1913 Lizzie Orenstein January 10, 1913 Age: 31 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Elizabeth Spalding, February 24, 1913 Age: 30 Midwife Caroline Sandberg (?), Chicago, IL Edna Frederickson March 7, 1913 Age: 16 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Mary Brubaker, March 18, 1913 Age: 25 Dr. H.W. Case (?), Chicago, IL Myrtle L. Irish, May 18, 1913 Age: 18 Dr. E. E. Birney, Nora Springs, IA Sophie Wagner, May 2, 1913 Midwife Margaret Widemann, Chicago, IL Freda Englehardt,June 17, 1913 Age: 36 Dr. Joseph A. Meeks (?), Chicago, IL Catherine Sartelopoulos, July 16, 1913 Age: 24 Dr. Paul Ackerman (?), Chicago, IL Emma Chandler, July 20, 1913 Age: 20 Dr. J.A. Richmond, Denver, CO "Cookie G.," August or September, 1913 Age 35 Unspecified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Anna Turnovan, August 4, 1913 Age: 40 Dr. Frank L. Meuller (?), Chicago, IL Emma Witte, August 20, 1913 Age: 20 Dr. Otis Walker, Chicago, IL Anna Adler, September 9, 1913 Age: 27 Dr. Lou. E. Davis, Chicago, IL Lillie Giovenco, October 1, 1914 Age: 18 Dr. Eva Shaver, Chicago, IL Frances Odochowski October 11, 1913 Age: 28 Dr. Arthur L. Blunt (?), Chicago, IL Emily Nohavec October 23, 1913 Age: 19 Midwife Emma Bickel (?), Chicago, IL Mary Tureck, October 23, 1913 Age: 22 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Anna Rose Gold, November, 1913 Dr. C. S. Salmon (?), Chicago, IL Catherine Seabrooke, November 19, 1913 Age: 27 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Hulda Tubbin, November 22, 1913 Age: 33 Dr. Olaf Olson (?), Chicago, IL spacer spacer 1914 Helen Kleich, January 23, 1914 Age: 17 Midwife Margared Wiedemann (?), Chicago, IL Martha Kwasek, February 28, 1914 Age: 23 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Della Augustine, March 1, 1914 Age: 24 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Hannah Olson March 2, 1914 Age: 32 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Elizabeth O'Donnell March 9, 1914 Age: 34 Dr. Alvin C. Hirster (?), Chicago, IL Irene Ridgeway, March 18, 1914 Age: 28 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Frances Fergus March 31, 1914 Age: 24 Dr. James R. Struble (?), Chicago, IL Florence Lindquist, April 26, 1914 Age: 18 Dr. Arthur F. Schulz (?), Chicago, IL Mary Stepen, April 29, 1914 Age: 37 Midwife Anna Stanek (?), Chicago, IL Hazel Johnson, May 5, 1914 Age: 21 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Mary Schloendorn, June 5, 1914 Age: 28 Unspecified midwife, Astoria, NY Ester Reid, June 8, 1914 Age: 17 Dr. J. L. Neuman, Chicago, IL Bridget Murphy, June 18, 1914 Age: 39 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Margaret Buetelman October 22, 1914 Dr. F. Waldo Whitney, New York, NY Genevive Tatar, November 6, 1914 Age: 25 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Mrs. George Hall, December, 1914 Dr. W. M. Burroughs (?), Chicago, IL Mrs. E. Hilliger, December, 1914 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Ida Kaufman, December 8, 1914 Age: 13 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Emma Fertig December 17, 1914 Age: 24 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Agnes Schaffner, December 18, 1914 Age: 31 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL spacer spacer 1915 May Hennasek, January 1, 1915 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL May Schoer, January 8, 1915 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Beulah Rehm, January 13, 1915 Age: 23 Dr. Arthur Blunt (?), Chicago, IL Stella Wagner, January 14, 1915 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Margaret Jenickes, January 15, 1915 Age: 22 Dr. C.A. Erickson (?), Chicago, IL Margaret Bereis, January 31, 1915 Age: 20 Unidentified perpetrator, Brooklyn, NY Anna Schanck, February 8, 1915 Age: 25 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Mary Pichman, February 19, 1915 Age: 24 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Mary Alpen, February 20, 1915 Age: 23 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Josepha Zrowsky, February 23, 1915 Self-induced, unspecified method, Chicago, IL Margaret Pank, February 24, 1915 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Lillian Galvin, March 5, 1915 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Bessie Wallace, March 6, 1915 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Emma Jonas, March 11, 1915 Age: 40 Cecelia Styskal (?), profession not indicated, Chicago, IL Carrie Pollison, March 12, 1915 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Elinora Cassidy, March 15, 1915 Age: 22 Dr. Julia Patera (?), Chicago, IL Hazel Carr, March 16, 1915 Age: 26 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Hazel Wilcox, March 16, 1915 Age: 19 Midwife Julie Petera, Chicago, IL Callie Stewart, March 17, 1915 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Olivia Becker, March 19, 1915 Age 34 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Frances Kulczyk, March 24, 1915 Age: 31 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Mary Shvernieckas, May 3, 1915 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Nellie Sutlaika, c. May 8, 1915 Unknown perpetrator Anna Johnson May 26, 1915 Age: 25 Dr. Eva Shaver, Chicago, IL May Johnson, May 11, 1915 Age: 36 Self-induced by unspecified method, Chicago, IL Mabel Brown, May 15, 1915 Age 29 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Molly Quinby, May 31, 1915 Self-induced, Chicago, IL Mary Balcznska, June 5, 1915 Age: 25 Midwife Veronika Rypczyski (?), Chicago, IL Mamie Arkins, July 9, 1915 Age: 26 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Stella Cams, August 2, 1915 Age: 30 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Margaret McCreary, August 21, 1915 Midwife Marie Treylt (?), Pittsburgh, PA Anna Mauch, September, 1915 Midwife Emilie Sarb, Chicago, IL Anna Marie Dimford, September 29, 1915 Age: 21 Dr. Stanley T. Boguszewski and midwife Julia Statkiewz, Chicago, IL Marie Rockhill, September 29, 1915 Age: 19 Unidentified midwife, Chicago, IL Julia Lawynowicz, October, 1915 Dr. Stanley Boguszewski and midwife Julia Statkiewz, Chicago, IL Emma Alby, October, 1915, Age: 15 Dr. Charles R. A. Windmueller, Chicago, IL Anna Anderson, October 15, 1915 Age: 25 Dr. A. A. Ausplund, Chicago, IL Anna Hunt, December 21, 1915 Age: 34 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Mary Sorce, October 21, 1915 Age: 33 Midwife Giuseppina Piazza (?), Chicago, IL spacer spacer 1916 Ruth Camp, February 2, 1916 Dr. Bennett Graff, Denver, CO Eva Krakonowicz, February 11, 1916 Age: 42 Midwife Agnes Dzugas (?), Chicago, IL Anna Nicholls February 12, 1916 Age: 28 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Mary Peckman, February 19, 1916 Age: 24 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Bertha Carlson, February 20, 1916 Age: 19 Dr. A. F. Butler (?), Chicago, IL Beulah Hatch, February 18, 1916 Age: 24 Dr. Bennett Graff, Denver, CO Ada Williams, February 20, 1916 Age: c. 27 Dr. Noble O. Hamilton, Denver, CO Helen Long, February 23, 1916 Age: 25 Husband, Dr. Lester Long, Cambridge, IL Alda Christopherson, February 25, 1916 Age: 21 Dr. Lillian Hobbs, Chicago, IL Augusta Bloom, March 3, 1916 Age: 43 Dr. James R. Struble (?), Chicago, IL Lucile Bersworth, May 16, 1916 Age: 25 Dr. Anna Albers (?), Chicago, IL Carolina Petritz, March 19, 1916 Age: 30 Midwife Paulina Erlomus (?), Chicago, IL Caroline Repritis, March 20, 1916 Midwife Pauline Urbanos (?), Chicago, IL Anna Krause, March 21, 1916 Age: 33 Midwife Anna Vidicas (?), Chicago, IL Angela Raia, March 25, 1916 Possibly a physician, Astoria, NY Margaret Waldon, April 15, 1916 Age: 33 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Maud Tabor Virgo May 1, 1916 Age: 46 Both mother (Sarah Tabor) and estranged husband (former undertaker Joseph Virgo) implicated, Lawton, MI Jennie Zablinien, June, 1916 Unverified abortion, Chicago, IL Rosie Kawera, June 14, 1916 Age: 29 Midwife Wilhemina Benn, Chicago, IL Mena Malletti, July 9, 1916 Age: 27 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Anna Korcik, July 15, 1916 Midwife Marie Small (?), Chicago, IL Elizabeth Radcliffe July 21, 1916 Age: 17 Boyfriend Roy Hinterliter, Olney, IL Violet King, August 23, 1916 Age: 26 Lydia Hoff, profession not specified, Queens, NY Etta Gardener, September 1916 Age: 22 Unidentified perpetrator, Yuma, AZ Emily Projahn, October 9, 1916 Age: 33 Dr. Clarence W. Mercereau, Chicago, IL Degna Felicelli, October 10, 1916 Age: 36 Dr. A. E. Bertling (?) and Dr. A. W. Claggett (?), Chicago, IL Elizabeth Winter, November 11, 1916 Age: 28 Cecelia Stejskal, profession not specified, Chicago, IL Mrs. M. Marazak, November 24, 1916 Age: 24 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Pauline Hill,December 4, 1916 Age: 23 Dr. George E. Fosberg, Chicago, IL Eleanor Dillon, December 14, 1916 Age: 19 Dr. M.R. Perlstein (?), Chicago, IL spacer spacer 1917 Agnes Groja, January, 1917 Age: 16 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Tillie Vrzal, January 10, 1917 Age: 23 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Marie Benzing, February 15, 1917 Age: 28 Dr. Helen Dugdale (?), Chicago, IL Edna Lamb, February 17, 1917 Age: 20 Dr. Charles Klinetop (?), Chicago, IL Bertha Dombrowski, February 23, 1917 Age: 28 Dr. John L. Van Valkenburg (?), Chicago, IL Minnie Schofield, March 13, 1917 Age: 33 Dr. Fred L. Orsinger (?), Chicago, IL Celia Steele, March 15, 1917 Age: 24 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Mary Conners, March 23, 1917 Age: 19 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Antonia Gennaro, April 16, 1917 Age: 27 Midwife Minnie Miller (?), Chicago, IL Ruth Lemaire, April 30, 1917 Age: 24 Dr. Lillian Hobbs (?), Chicago, IL Emma Melvin, June 9, 1917 Age: 26 Dr. Maximillian Meinhard (?), Chicago, IL Matilda Tidrick, June 9, 1917 Age 38 Dr. George Lotz, Danville, IL Esther Stark, June 11, 1917 Age: 23 Midwife Mary Groh (?), Chicago, IL Julia Suchora, June 18, 1917 Age: 19 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Helen Skoza, July 3, 1917 Age: 31 Nurse Elizabeth Schade (?), Chicago, IL Frances Reinhardt, July 17, 1917 Age: 34 W. Thomas, posing as Dr. A. E. Thomas, Chicago, IL Emeila Gorman, August 10, 1917 Age: 29 Dr. Anna Sorenson (?), Chicago, IL Mary Park August 14, 1917 Age: 24 Dr. E.L. Willis, Denver, CO Elise Stone, August 18 (?), 1917 Age: 18 Dr. A. H. Yates (?), Oklahoma Anna Lindquist, August 19, 1917 Age: 31 Nurse or midwife Katherine Schmidt (?), Chicago, IL Mrs. Vladislaw Zapanc, August 26, 1917 Age: 28 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Lizzie Heimos, September 6, 1917 Age: 29 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Genevieve Popjoy, September 12, 1917 Age: 20 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Annie DeGroote, September 29, 1917 Age: 27 Dr. Emma J. Warren (?), Chicago, IL Katherine Cross, October 10, 1917 Age: 18 Dr. Abraham H. Yates, Oklahoma Stella Ahern, October 24, 1917 Age: 24 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Margaret Linstrom, November 12, 1917 Age: 22 Dr. Anna Sorenson (?), Chicago, IL Ellen Matson, November 18, 1917 Age: 29 Dr. Lillian Hobbs, Chicago, IL Helen Devora, November 22, 1917 Age: 20 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Grace Wolf, December 3, 1917 Dr. C. Allen Snyder, Dubuque, IA Mary Francis Falls December 14, 1917 Age: 18 Dr. John C. Dysart (?), El Paso, TX Victoria Chmileuski, December 31, 1917 Age: 40 Midwife Wilhemena Benn (?), Chicago, IL spacer spacer 1918 Mrs. Frank Gagne, 1918 Dr. C. Allen Snyder (?), Dubuque, IA Sallie McGrann, 1918 Rosa Barber (?), profession not specified, Reading, PA Margaret Crowe, January 2, 1918 Age: 25 Dr. Anna Sorenson (?), Chicago, IL Margaret Balch, January 8, 1918 Age: 20 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Mary Cusack, January 9, 1918 Age: 39 Dr. William A. McFarlane (?), Chicago, IL Annabella Lewis, January 28, 1918 Age: 27 Verified self-induced, slippery elm bark, Allegheny County, PA Carmile Ghant, February 5, 1918 Age: 29 Dr.Ges. Miller (?) and Dr. Robert J. Miller (?), Chicago, IL Helen Noah February 16, 1918 Age: 34 Self-induced with catheter, Pittsburgh, PA Mary Mayer, February 25, 1918 Age: 34 Dr. Ges. Miller (?) and Dr. Robert J. Miller (?), Chicago, IL Catherine Lurandowski, February 28, 1918 Age: 27 Katerine Eichenberg (?), profession not specified, Chicago, IL Mary Wojnovich, March 2, 1918 Age: 26 Verified self-induced with wooden stick, Pittsburgh, PA Sophie Suida, June 17, 1918 Age: 25 Dr. L. D. Tucholska (?), Chicago, IL Agnes Dohrer, July 3, 1918 Age: 17 Dr. A. W. Dortch (?), Arkans City, KS Grace Mallone, July 12, 1918 Age: 18 Dr. W. W. Aiken (?), Muskogee, OK Berter Mae Parish, July 18, 1918 Dr. C. A. Blanchard (?), Augusta, GA Margaret Smith, July 20, 1918 Age: 18 Verified self-induced by unspecified method, Pittsburgh, PA Cecelia Dieber, July 31, 1918 Age: 20 Dr. Herman Spangler, Easton, PA Alma Heidenway, August 20, 1918 Age: 28 Dr. James A. Stough (?), Chicago, IL Mabel Johnston, August 29, 1918 Age:23 Dr. Nathan Smedley (?) and Dr. Emma Warren (?), Chicago, IL Gertrude Harrington, September 11, 1918 Age: 35 Helen Dugdale (?), profession not specified, Chicago, IL Anna Kelson, October 19, 1918 Age: 20 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Mary Lareau, November 1918 Age: 15 Unidentified perpetrator, Denver, CO Emma Hufnagel, December 14, 1918 Age: 19 Verified self-induced with catheter, Pittsburgh, PA spacer spacer 1919 Edna Griffith, February 6, 1919 Age: 22 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Ruth Fragale February 8, 1919 Age: 20 Verified self-induced with instruments, Pittsburgh, PA Wanda Skrzypzak, January 21, 1919 Age: 26 Dr. Michael Rozumski (?) and Dr. John P. Wojtaleiwicz (?), Chicago, IL Thea Newman February 24, 1919 Age: 37 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Viola Parr, March 1, 1919 Age: 24 Dr. W. G. Waters, Athens, GA Jeanette Ruff, March 1, 1919 Age: 22 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Inez Reed March 7, 1919 Age: 28 Dr. Ephraim Northcott, San Mateo, CA Mrs. Edward Stolker April, 1919 Husband, farmer Edward Stolker, turpentine used in unspecified manner, Grant County, ND Mary Kizior, April 3, 1919 Age: 22 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Katherine McFarland, April 7, 1919 Age: 25 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Susie Airey, May 12, 1919 Age: 38 Midwife Martha Richter (?), Chicago, IL Gertrude Schaefer, May 17, 1919 Age: 27 Unidentified perpetrator, Chicago, IL Lena Benes, May 30, 1919 Age: 43 Midwife Anna Heisler, Chicago, IL Marie Oganesoff July 11, 1919 Age: 33 Dr. Julius Hammer, New York, NY Annie Merriman, November 6, 1919 Age: 23 Dr. L. H. Hughes (?), Dennison, OH Rose Kulamer, December 26, 1919 Age: 33 Midwife Marie Treytl (?), Pittsburgh, PA	* The Colonial Era The 19th Century The 1900s The 1910s The 1920s The 1930s The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 2000s The 2010s	A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O PQ R S T UV WXYZ Jane Roes